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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Harjo's brother Boyd when her mother and stepfather sent him to live with her?
(a) 11.
(b) 13.
(c) 15.
(d) 16.

2. What metaphorical action does Harjo use to describe the way her fear drove her to remain in one place on the time and space continuum?
(a) Springing a trap.
(b) Killing a beast.
(c) Closing the door.
(d) Burrowing into a cave.

3. When Harjo went to stay with her fiance's grandmother, she liked to take part in the old woman's visits with her friends in what area of town?
(a) The library.
(b) The bank parking lot.
(c) The park.
(d) The town square.

4. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?
(a) Questions.
(b) Funerals.
(c) Endings.
(d) Answers.

5. Which person threatened Harjo with physical harm if she ever sang inside the house again?
(a) Her biological father.
(b) Her brother Allen.
(c) Her stepfather.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?

2. To whose house did Harjo return after the troupe's tour was over?

3. By what age had Harjo tired of hearing the Bible misused "to prove the superiority of white people” and “to enforce the domination of women by men” (68)?

4. Which member of the young Cherokee man's family was a healer within the tribe?

5. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?

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